Aces High Bulletin Board
Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: mkrueg on June 10, 2006, 10:18:32 PM
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I am getting all sorts of Archive noise when I play this game and, no problems with any others. Tons of green and white boxes and lines in the game problem will persist when i exit game for 5 to 10 mins and then go away. I never get any error messages or anything like that. Wondering if any one has seen this with this card and drivers (may 24th 2006 drivers loaded) or other cards.
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Almost sounds like an overheat problem. Do you have a temp monitor that you can check?
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Thats what ATI thinks however the ATI tool shows it running nice and cold. Im just going to send it back to them get a new one.
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Artifacts are usaully the result of overclocking, which causes heat.
Are you overclocking any portion of your system? Try running with your case cover off and see if it doesnt go away.
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No nothing is overclocked case open case closed dosnt matter. Ive placed an old card in to limp allong till I can get the replacement in. Im guessing something was bad and just finaly went all the way after heating and cooling for 6 months. Least ill get a new one free.
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Just out of curiousity, how cool is "nice and cold"?
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Just out of curiousity, how cool is "nice and cold"?
yea , me tooo
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Sorry was out of town. It was running at 55C if i rember right it was allways on the low end of ATI's control pannel programs little thermastat.
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Ummm..........
While the GPU itself should be able to handle much higher temps than that, I'd not call 55C "nice and cold". You could boil water on that thing. Seriously. If 55C is what its running at idle, what's it running while Aces High is going? I'll bet you are peaking at around 10 degrees more than that during heavy use. Thats hot enough to start frying components that arent designed to take that kind of temp, like stuff on your motherboard around the video card. And if the airflow inside your case isnt the greatest, you are heating up EVERYTHING in there, including your CPU.
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I thought water boiled at 100 degrees celsius.
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62-65c used to cause a nasty video artifact stutter then a black screen on one of my older cards ..
i had to pull the heat sink and reattach it with artic silver and 2 drops of super glue to hold it on better . it droped almost 20c temp after that under a load.
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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
I thought water boiled at 100 degrees celsius.
Umm, yeah.
I should just stop while I'm ahead and before I make any other stupid comments lol. I think 55C works out to like 140F or something like that. I'm rather in a haze between pain and painkillers and for some reason even though I was converting the temps to Farenheit scale in my head the Celcius label stuck through the conversion lol. Dont ask me to explain beyond that, I confuse easily right now. :) My apologies for the DUH! alert.
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That is definately heat related. The GPU may be fine, but the RAM is getting too hot, which is causing the artifacts. Aces High has a tendency to be a good load tester for most components.
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Well either way new card arrived today just waiting on the parts to hook into my water cooled system for the CPU if that cant keep it cool then im lost :)
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Originally posted by mkrueg
Well either way new card arrived today just waiting on the parts to hook into my water cooled system for the CPU if that cant keep it cool then im lost :)
you still need good airflow thru the case ,,, even on water
hd's, ram , and the backside of the cards still need it
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Cooling your CPU is not going to help cool the RAM on the video card. If you have too much dead air space in the case, water cooling the CPU is not going to help.
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Make sure if you bought a VGA block than dosent cover the RAM that you invest in Ram sinks , copper is prefered. Then make sure you have descent air flow over the sinks . What kind of water set up do you have , if you dont mind me asking 8) .